METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSTALLING SOFTWARE

• US 20170351503A1
• Filed: 06/04/2017
• Published: 12/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Advanced Digital Broadcast SA (Advanced Digital Broadcast Holdings SA)
• Original Assignee: Advanced Digital Broadcast SA (Advanced Digital Broadcast Holdings SA)
• Inventors: STORTO, Marco, Pellegrini, Roberto
• Application Number:
  US15/613,221
• Publication Number:
  US 20170351503A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/302 where the computing system component is a software system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3051 Monitoring arrangements for monitoring the configuration of the computing system or of the computing system component, e.g. monitoring the presence of processing resources, peripherals, I/O links, software programs verification or detection of system hardware configuration G06F11/2247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/60 Software deployment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/61 Installation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/542 Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A method for installing software on a controlled device (110), comprising the steps of: instructing (203) the controlled device (110) to download a software file; sending (206) a notification to a controlling device (120) that software can be installed; receiving (208), from the controlling device (120), an acceptance message to install the software; and instructing (212) the controlled device (110) to install the software file.

Claims

1. A method for installing software on a controlled device (110), comprising the steps of:

instructing (203) the controlled device (110) to download a software file;

sending (206) a notification to a controlling device (120) that software can he installed;

receiving (208), from the controlling device (120), an acceptance message to install the software; and

instructing (212) the controlled device (110) to install the software file.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising sending (206) the notification to the controlling device (120) as a push notification and awaiting reception (207) of an opt-in API call.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of logging the acceptance message and associated metadata in a database (135).

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising scheduling (210) the time of installation of the software file.

5. The method according to claim 4, further comprising the steps of monitoring (213) for receipt of a message from the controlled device (110) confirming software installation or expiry of a timeout, and rescheduling the time of installation of the software file.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of sending (216) a notification to the controlling device (120) that software has been installed.

7. The method according to claim 1, comprising communicating with the controlled device (110) using Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) or a Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP).

8. The method according to claim 1, comprising communicating with the controlling device (120) using Representational State Transfer (REST) API over Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS).

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer-executable instructions performing all the steps of the method according to claim 1 when executed on a computer.

10. A system for installing software, the system comprising:

at least one controlled device (110) comprising a control unit (111) coupled to a software memory (113) and a network interface (112);

at least one controlling device (120); and

at least one server communicatively connected via a network (130) with the controlled device (110) and the controlling device (120) and operating a device management module (134) configured to perform the steps of the method according to claim 1.